I know there are are posts out there, but i'm a little lost.
I'm an old ubuntu user and have now set myself a little project.
I'm using a dectop PIC (which basically a 300Mhz 128 RAM) PC with a 10gig hard drive.

And i want to make my own puplet.

So i'm interested to know from all the legends out there who have done this, quite how they did this and what they've learnt.

I'll start with a couple of questions:

- Do you modify your puppy from a frugal HD install or a normal HDD install?
- If it's a normal HDD install how do you update the core puppy files without another full install.
- Unleashed or remaster?
- This is a real basic question, but probably a standard one for ex debian users. when an iso is created by whatever tool above, does the iso contain the set of sfs files puppy runs on OR is it just an uncompressed version?
- If it's an uncompressed version, how to you repackage everything into it's sfs files?

download a base (NOP 3.01)
burn it
run it
realise I have no hard disk
put in a hard drive
tweak and add
run any remaster software (hope NOP has it)
upload
try and convince everyone I have done something legendary

PS. Asking for help always a good idea
good luck _________________Puppy WIKI

Did you actully run your puppy from the hard disk with a normal hard disk install or did you run your puppy from a live cd and all you required was your config file to create your new puplet.

What i want is a my own little distro (well it'll be massive in popularity) but with the abilty to update the core when a new one comes out. From what i understand, if i run a normal hard disk install of puppy i can't update the core without completely re-installing something like NOP?

I'm getting it. so with unleashed (and using my AMD PIC) i can run something like NOP from a usb stick. Then create a 2Gb file space on the Hard drive of the machine. I can then download the unleashed core and the packages into this harddrive space.

unpackem (That is a word in the english dictionary... i promise)

The make my modifications be hand.

So potentially i could make modifcations to NOP and every modificaiton i make, i make the same modification in my puppy-unleashed directory on the HDD. Therefore when i build the unleashed dir. I get the iso matching the USB stick puppy.

So i guess the remaster is more fixed? It only builds certain configurations on top of the core?

so for example it only takes configurations from your /root directory?

Basically you need a hard disk to store files
(unless you are using a lot of ram or a USB keydrive
- it might even be possible to do it all from a multisession CD/DVD

Do not confuse the two methods
remastering is quick and easy
(add stuff and burn an ISO)
Unleashed select the packages you want
- in effect your very own distro - right down to every package
Unleashed is more professional but harder

I thought i'd use this thread to log my experiences in creating my own puplet for future users.

So i got hold of NOP3.01 and decided to add the packages i wanted and modify themes and menus to make my own puplet. I then got hold of the remaster script and ran it. And hey presto, i've got my own puplet.

BUT, i wanted to get rid of a whole load of packages from NOP, so i tried the pupbegone app. Which doesn't really work for a frugal install and didn't remove my apps for the new puplet.

So, i decided to take the next step of the puplet road and download tuxxm's fatfree puplet then build apon it.

The idea is to add xfce and all the pacakges i need to this fat free puplet. BUT i want to download the pet's first to i have a log of what i have installed.

This means that i can move to my final goal of using the unleashed system.

so, here's my problem.

When i add pet's to fatfree there are lot's of libraries missing. Obviously if i was allowing the puppy installer to handle this, while online it will just download the libraries i need.

But i don't want that, i want o download everything i need to build a list.

So, i'll take an example. Seamonkey. I want to install that on fat free, so i donwload the pet and install it.

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